Socioeconomic challenges color patients' lung cancer screening experience

New research among lung cancer screening participants has found that low-dose chest computed tomography (CT) screening is ...
Thorax

Comparative cost-effectiveness of screening for lung cancer using different risk scores and thresholds: the Yorkshire Lung Screening Trial

Methods We conducted a cost-effectiveness analysis in the Yorkshire Lung Screening Trial (YLST) population comparing three ...

Pigeons are surprisingly good at detecting cancer

For every 10 scans containing an abnormality, a radiologist is likely to miss three of them. This is a problem because ...

New framework renders AI more trustworthy for cancer subtyping

Medical artificial intelligence (AI) faces a fundamental challenge: uncertainty quantification. Artificial neural networks ...

Scientists in America are using pigeons to train medical AI tools for early stage cancer detection

Pigeons are inspiring a new wave of AI for medical diagnostics. Researchers are studying how these birds process visual ...
American Lung Association

Debunking the Most Common Lung Cancer Myths

Even though lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S., many people don’t know much about it. Unfortunately, lack of symptoms often means that lung cancer can go undiagnosed or ...